The RNLI were beneficiaries from an open day at Billingsgate Market, London, when the public were invited to watch demonstrations and buy species offish that they would not necessarily find at their local fishmongers. Here Ronald Nichols is... - View image in PDF
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FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—On the 21st August, in a strong wind from the S.W. and a rough sea, the yacht T. Deryon,of Carmarthen, was observed to be dismasted and in dangerous proximity to the Langharne Sands. Tie Life-boat City of...
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 27th January, the barge T.T.H., of London, bound from Brightlingsea for Chatham with a load of shingle, got into difficulties. She lost her rudder and started a bad...
On the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1956, the Humber and Bridlington life-boats put out to the help of the motor vessel Stevonia, of Goole. Conditions at sea were such that the Committee of Management decided to address collective...
FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...
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Two lifeboats rescue family and dogs from cliffface in heavy surf Both of Newquay's inshore lifeboats were involved in rescuing two adults, a baby and two dogs from a cliff after they had been cut off by the tide at Bedruthan steps on 30...
At 6.45 P.M. on the 1st April a telephone message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore at Scotston Head. Coxswain James Cameron of the No. 2 Life - boat Alexander Tulloch started for the scene j of the wreck,...
MARCH 1ST. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
The S.S. Gairsoppa, of Glasgow, 5,000 tons, with a crew of thirty, had been torpedoed and had sunk. At 10.30 A.M. the life-boat motor-mechanic saw a small boat with survivors on board. A...
At daybreak on the 2nd No- vember, the smack Bruce, of Milford, was compelled to anchor in a dismasted state about three miles east of Tenby; the wind was blowing a furious gale from W.S.W. at times, and the sea was very high. The Tenby life...
Holyhead, Anglesey. —• On the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1950, it was learned through the Trinity House Depot that a boat was needed to fetch a sick man from the Skerries lighthouse.
The Trinity House vessel was not...